longum
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlon.ɡum/, [ˈɫ̪ɔŋɡʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlon.ɡum/, [ˈlɔŋɡum]
Adjective
longum
- inflection of longus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “longum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “longum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- longum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
- (ambiguous) at a great distance: longo spatio, intervallo interiecto
- (ambiguous) to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
- (ambiguous) far and wide; on all sides; everywhere: longe lateque, passim (e.g. fluere)
- (ambiguous) after a fairly long interval: satis longo intervallo
- (ambiguous) the case is exactly similar (entirely different): eadem (longe alia) est huius rei ratio
- (ambiguous) this is quite another matter: hoc longe aliter, secus est
- (ambiguous) a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
- (ambiguous) to be quite uncivilised: ab omni cultu et humanitate longe abesse (B. G. 1. 1. 3)
- (ambiguous) Pythagoras' principles were widely propagated: Pythagorae doctrina longe lateque fluxit (Tusc. 4. 1. 2)
- (ambiguous) to go a long way back (in narrative): longe, alte (longius, altius) repetere (either absolute or ab aliqua re)
- (ambiguous) this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
- (ambiguous) to begin with a long syllable: oriri a longa (De Or. 1. 55. 236)
- (ambiguous) to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
- (ambiguous) a man-of-war: navis longa
- (ambiguous) not to be prolix: ne longum sit
- (ambiguous) to be far from town: longe, procul abesse ab urbe
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